Welcome to Litsy!

I really wanted to love this book, and absolutely look forward to reading more by the author. This book had a diverse cast of characters, an autistic character, and lots of LGBTQ warm-and-fuzzies. Sadly, I didn't love it. Dialogue often felt forced, events like a fight in the music room felt unreasonable, the character's gender exploration happened suddenly, and the romance felt unearned.

There's nothing quite like reading out in the sun! We got our Covid vaccines today, so we treated ourselves to some new comics at our local game/comic cafe. Once I finished reading the comics, I started this lovely book for Autism awareness month (I've been wanting to read it for a while, but the mini challenge for the A to Z reading challenge is a book with autistic MC. I picked a book with an autistic queer author instead!)

I went ahead and ordered a few books with some birthday money from August (finally)! I decided instead of buying a silly Switch-themed case for an electronic, I'd buy some books by queer authors. One favorite book (Trans Like Me) and 2 I haven't read! #queerauthor #lgbtqauthor #newbook #diversity #neurodiversity #autism #bookhaul

An #OwnVoices #YA about a trans feminine teen at a new arts high school. They start off identifying as gay, then move to they/them pronouns, then to the name Veronica. They are accepted into a ragtag group of fierce, adorable queer kids, who've come out in the Internet age. While the oppressive characters were done heavy-handedly, I was taken with Veronica and their friends, as well as a cute romance with Veronica's fellow Asian comic book nerd.

Although J.K.Rowling‘s anti-transgender and gender queer twitter comments are not new, they‘ve inspired me to share a few bonus author highlights today! Bridget Liang describes themself as a mixed race, queer, transfeminine, autistic, disabled, fat fangirl. Their work is featured in two anthologies, and they have a novel coming out this August. #lgbtq #lgbtqvoices #lgbtqauthors #autism #pridemonth2020